Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk
March 2, 2018
Madhu Kasiram, Penny Sartori
This article addresses the two related issues of near-death experience and life-threatening illness with a view to helping survivors and helping professionals appreciate how to make sense of the experience whilst considering future living and future service provision. The article is based on two related research studies, citing literature from different disciplines of nursing, women’s health,...
PLoS One
February 14, 2018
Héléna Cassol, Benoît Pétré, Sophie Degrange et al.
131 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) refer to profound psychological events that can have an important impact on the experiencers' (NDErs) lives. Previous studies have shown that NDEs memories are phenomenologically rich. In the present study, we therefore aimed to extract the common themes (referred to as "features" in the NDE literature) reported by NDErs by analyzing all the concepts stored in the...
BMC Medicine
February 1, 2018
J. Jesuthasan, E. Sönmez, I. Abels et al.
68 citations
BackgroundThe year 2016 has marked the highest number of displaced people worldwide on record. A large number of these refugees are women, yet little is known about their specific situation and the hurdles they have to face during their journey. Herein, we investigated whether sociodemographic characteristics and traumatic experiences in the home country and during the flight affected the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2018
A comparative survey of how near-death experiences (NDEs) intersected with afterlife myths and shamanic practices, as reported in the mid-19th to mid-20th century by missionaries, explorers, and ethnographers of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia, reveals various culturally distinct patterns. In Polynesia and Melanesia, documentary accounts of NDEs are found alongside myths and...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2018
Øystein Buer, Mary Harris Kalfoss, Lars Weisæth et al.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to explore the states of consciousness associated with various features of near-death experience (NDE). The sample comprised 23 Norwegian adult survivors of unconsciousness associated with life threatening medical conditions, either cardiac arrest (CA; n=19) or surgery to address another type of trauma (OT; n=4). Of these, 11 CA and 4 OT patients...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Francesca Pistoia, Giulia Mattiacci, Marco Sarà et al.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been defined as any conscious perceptual experience occurring in individuals pronounced clinically dead or who came very close to physical death. They are frequently reported by patients surviving a critical injury and, intriguingly, they show common features across different populations. The tool traditionally used to assess NDEs is the NDE Scale, which is...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2018
Héléna Cassol, Arnaud D’Argembeau, Vanessa Charland-Verville et al.
1 citation
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November 10, 2017
José Deivison de Souza
This article exposes the concept of death, the difference between clinic death and vital death. A brief history about near death experiences (NDE) and their main characteristics. Which NDE changing effects are, or, the changes made by individuals after an NDE. The theories that explain NDE are the brain death, hallucination, temporal lobe, lack of oxygen and depersonalization. Final...
Death Studies
October 1, 2017
Simone Bianco, Marco Sambin, Arianna Palmieri
This study aims to investigate the processes used by individuals to integrate a near-death experience (NDE) and to discuss the use of a meaning-making component to help people who have had such experiences. A psychotherapist interviewed six individuals who reported having had a NDE. Transcripts of the interviews were coded using an interpretative phenomenological analysis. The authors...
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
August 18, 2017
Mohammad Shalauddin, Mohammed Shamsul Hoque, Touhid Bhuiyan
This study aims at analyzing image schemas (Johnson, 1987) and stages of grief (Kubler-Ross, 1969) in Tagore's near-death experience (NDE) poems written in the last ninety days before his death.Selected verses of the period in question are analyzed using benchmarks set by Johnson and Kubler-Ross.Relation between the schemas and some linguistic forms, themes and moods of these poems are also...